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Chis little booklet is a creation of the 

New ‘Rochelle Chamber of Commerce 

done into printed picture and word by 
some of its many talented members 


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Cotes PuiLuips, Chairman *FRANK X. LEYENDECKER 
Orson Lowe Lt, Vice Chairman Fred Dana MarsH 
JosepH C. LEYENDECKER *EpWARD PENFIELD 
Ernest ALBErtT, A.N.A. Norman RockwELt 
Lucius W. Hitcucock L. A. SHAFER 
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Wo. Jupson Criark, Chairman James J. Montacue 
Avucustus THOMAS Francis T. Hunter 
Hon. Joun G. Acar EUGENE SARAZEN 
Hon. J. Appison Younc GeEorcE W. SutTron, Jr. 
Witiiam A. Moore Rospert N. Bavier 
Burton KLINE Mrs. E. Lyman BILu 
RoserT J. Cooper Rev. Georce REYNOLDS 
ALBERT LEonaArRD, Pu.D. Rev. Micuaev J. Larkin 
EpwarD STETSON GRIFFING RicHARD WEBBER 


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Theodore Roosevelt 


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NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. 


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“Chere is virtue in country houses, 
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FOREWORD 





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THE worth of our suburban places in America is that in them 
the vital flow of the great cities renews itself each night. 

In pleasant homes standing four square to the weather, re- 
freshed by theclean winds, watched over by the visible stars, sturdy little 
populations, competent, helpful, progressive, accept life’s gifts and 
meet its calls, with confident but unboasting self-reliance, to lend the 
surplus of their vigor to the profound needs and problems of the nation. 

That is their immeasurable contribution. 

They differ slightly in constituent elements, these little places, 
but all have the beauties of the seasons as the big cities never know 
them and Nature’s reassuring permanencies. Some of them have 
also the sea, and the corrective sanity of the horizon. 

Each night repeats the miracle of the renewal, and the tranquil 
process perhaps unknown to the individual, strengthens, develops 
and enriches him. 


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Sleep is like death, and after sleep 

The world seems new begun, 

Its earnestness all clear and deep, 

Its true solution won. 

White thoughts stand luminous and firm, 
Like statues 1n the sun.” 


In one of his early farces, William Gillette, pretending acquaintance 
with a land he had never seen, tells an inquiring native that it isa 
“rolling country.” “When I saw it,” the native answers, “it was 
flat.” Gillette replies, “Well, you can’t expect a 
country to roll all the time’! About and through 
New Rochelle, however, the country does roll all 
the time. Much of its beauty is because of the 
variety of skyline so produced and the park-like 
contours of its home districts which are a second 
consequence of this formation. 





And then the salt water! 
Emerson in an affectionate mood wrote of his 
New England city: 


“The rocky nook, with hill-tops three, 
Looked eastward from the farms, 
And twice a day the flowing sea 
Took Boston in its arms.” 


The lines would be especially appropriate to 
New Rochelle with its two pretty harbors and with 
its many inlets that comb the shore-line. Globe-travelled yachts- 
men unanimously call Long Island Sound the finest expanse of 
pleasure sailing in the world. From many of the town’s middle 
and higher places, the house-holders look on its waters and to the 
distant shores of Long Island. Some views include the open reaches 
and the horizon. On moon-lit nights this sheet of water has in grand 
fashion that haunting beauty that under the embracing charity of the 
moon all waterways put on. Across its splendor, stationed lighthouses 
wink identifying vigils and punctual steamers pass like jewels magically 
adrift. Before the white man came, the Siwanoy brave whose “heart 
was bad”’ looked on this water in such nights as these and let the Moon- 
god slowly wash his spirit. The Moon-god still has his cleansing 
power; his paler children now look on the water much as did the 
Siwanoy brave, and the inarticulate, the unutterable, the clouded 
feeling now as then fades and gives place to peace. 

Thirty-five years ago when Remington, Kemble and Zogbaum chose 
New Rochelle for their homes, the village was proud of some half dozen 
artists resident. It has now an Art Association of 96 active mem- 
bers, many of national reputation. The big market of New York brings 
them to the east and the beauty and convenience of New Rochelle 
attracts them to her homes. The constant influence of these men 
would be great even if it were only silent and individual. But ap- 
plied as it is in organized social purpose, it is predominant. Evi- 
dences of this artistic influence meet you at every 
entrance of the town and color every quarter of 
it. The number of these artists for whose contri- 
butions room has been found in the following pages 
would claim only to be representative of their 
whole local fraternity. Similar comment fits the 
men of letters who have furnished the printed 
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Of these subjects and of New Rochelle’s present 
transportation facilities, her athletics, her club life, 
her ethical endeavors, her commerce, amusements, 
her schools and homes, and other admirable ele- 
ments, sympathetic men have written and have painted 
and have sung. Their contributions evidencing their 
affections perhaps as fully as their knowledge and 
beliefs, are assembled on these pages, and while the 
joined tributes must of necessity lack the continuity and 
smoothness of an emotional ambuscade, their voluntary 
character, their sincerity, the high level of their workmanship, their 
harmony of purpose, make their staccato the more effective. Their 
book has the earnest dignity of statement that distinguishes title 
from proclamation. 

Bill Nye, now an infrequently read humorist of the last century, 
wrote on the front page of one of his volumes a quatrain which may 
be quoted here in relaxing and amiable desire to show that the enter- 
prise is friendly: 





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Only 68 years after a shipload of English people fled oppression 
at home and came to Cape Cod, another band of fugitives from op- 
pression in France came to the northern shore of Long Island Sound. 
This second band also named their settlement after an old home town 
and called it New Rochelle. 

Rightly or not, it has become fixed in mind that America began 
in 1620 when the Pilgrims used Plymouth Rock as a stepping stone. 
We do know now that what they stepped on was a magic throttle 
that unloosed every force in Nature friendly to man. From their 
landing point has spread and grown one of the great peoples of the 
earth. 

This other pilgrim settlement on the Sound remains as its founders 
made it—a haven, an assemblage of American homes. Yet another 
important thing began in America when these Huguenots came. 
You find it in the very name they chose for their retreat—as if a 
new Rochelle should stand for the same principles and faith they had 


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a fought for so heroically in the old Rochelle of 
@)Y France. For the first 50 years they wrote the 
records of their settlement in French, again to keep alive 
the spirit they brought here. Whatever the means that 
has preserved it since 1688, that early Huguenot spirit 
lives to this day in New Rochelle. 

It is first of all the spirit of sticking together for 
the common good. It is the spirit of fellowship. It is love of the 
beautiful, in life, in the home, the town. The spirit is any number 
of things, easily felt but hard to describe. To learn what it adds to 
life, you must live in New Rochelle. 

If Plymouth marks the point where a people began the pioneering 
that has set them above all others for greatness and worldly wealth, 
this Huguenot town of New Rochelle, nearly as old, began and re- 
mains an example of how rich in things of the spirit Americans may 
make their life if they will. Historically Plymouth is a symbol, but 
so is this Huguenot town another symbol. This little book is to show 
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In his Foreword, a distin- 
eulshedresidentof New Rochelle 
has told you how its founders 
blessed their city with the site 
they selected 238 years ago. 
The community profits still by 
their foresight. Good fortune 
has blessed it as much. New 
Rochelle faces one of the most 
beautiful bodies of water in the 
country, and it lies in one of the 
most beautiful counties. The 
discerning and wealthy of New 
York early pitched on the hills 
and dales of Westchester for 
their great estates and farms. 
In consequence the county is a 
park, and on the water edge of 
that park lies New Rochelle, 
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The Commuter’s Home Coming. 


From the bays and inlets along its shore its tree-shaded streets 
wind up over gentle rises of ground. Beside these streets nestle 
thousands of homes behind their hedges and shrubbery. From 
the municipal borders these streets go on, as well-paved parkways. 
For mile after mile in the country outside they tunnel under the 
branches of wayside trees. Or they skirt the edges of ponds and 
lakes. They wind beside flowered lawns, by the rolling fairways of 
country clubs, or the acres of gentlemen farmers. In 20 minutes a 
motor-car will take you from New Rochelle to a scene apparently 
hundreds of miles from the greatest and busiest of cities—and the 
railroad station in New Rochelle is just 16 miles, 31 minutes, from 
the busiest spot in New York, the Grand Central Station. 

“Forty-five minutes from Broadway’’—so George M. Cohan 
wrote of New Rochelle, in a song that went all over the country. 
He would have to revise it now. Progress has brought us nearer 
yet to New York. You can “give your regards to Broadway”’ in 14 
fewer minutes. You can do it at almost any hour of the day or 
night. Nearly 1oo trains make the distance, each way, over three 
railroads every day. One of them runs its trains all night. If you 
prefer your own car, the best of macadam and concrete roads 
will take you from New Rochelle to Columbus Circle in 45 minutes— 





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to 42d Street in an hour. And public motor buses do the distance 
in the same time. 

In the peaceful homes of New Rochelle you are on the other side 
of the world from New York—and yet are thus handy to it when you 
leave for your office in the morning, or for tea in the afternoon, for 
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Your hours at home in New Rochelle are passed in a municipality 
still ruled by the spirit of its founders. They had an eye to beauty 
and order. So does the city of today. It has 150 miles of streets 
paved in the modern way, most of them lined with maples and elms. 
The city has waterside parks and upland playgrounds, with baseball 
diamonds, football fields, running tracks, and woodland rambles. 
And few parks themselves are kept so strictly trim and neat as the 
thoroughfares of New Rochelle. 

In 1886, before it was incorporated as a city, New Rochelle ac- 
quired the spot where the Huguenots landed. Ona summer day you 
may sit there in Hudson Park, under the trees or on the lawn, and 
watch the sparkle of the Sound, and the movements of pleasure craft 
or the vessels of commerce upon it. Here is a rose garden boasting 
1,000 varieties, and known all over the land. Your children may loll 
on a beach or swim in the bay, for salt water swimming is only one 
of many of the sports provided for any and all. Now the city has 
four of these larger open spaces, with a total of 84 acres—this Hudson 
Park, Neptune Park, City Park, and the more recent Huguenot Park, 
43 acres in itself. 

Lately the onetime famous shore resort, Glen Island, has been 
opened to the public by the County Park Commission. Well within 
the city limits, and easily reached from any part of it, here are still more 
beaches, shaded picnic grounds, quiet waters for canoeing, playgrounds 
and salt air and sunshine for the children, a lively 
and lovely view across the water for their elders, and 
rest and recreation forall. Bathhouses, boathouses 
and landings are there, for a dip or a sail or a turn at 
the oars. The water-front of New Rochelle is dotted 
with yachting, rowing, swimming clubs.  Play- 
ground as well as park, it offers you every form of 
rest and every variety of amusement—not now and 
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School Days. 


Indoors, in the evenings, you may satisfy the interests of the heart 
as well as of the mind. New Rochelle has a varied and active social 
life. It is a city of good Americans and their homes, and the homes 
are warmed with American hospitality. 


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This is not for the present, merely; it is for any time to come. 
New Rochelle will never be encroached upon. The destiny that 
shaped Westchester County to be the country home and playground 
of New York will take good care that it remains what it is. Its nine 
miles of public beach and bathing frontage on the Sound and the 
Hudson, its 15,000 acres of parkland, its 140 miles of winding parkway, 
insure Westchester against anything but change for the better. Nothing 
can come between New Rochelle and this. Westchester is only New 
Rochelle and other towns and hamlets spread out, where men with the 
requisite means have the requisite room for their homes. 

What part of the land surrounding New Rochelle has not been 
made into great estates, is farmland, or wooded hillside. Farther 
out are tumbling streams, quiet pools, and the lakes of the metro- 
politan water system. Motor highways, endless and excellent, lure 
you through mile after mile of this. At any turn of the road is some | 
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the hunting-grounds and the 
fishing-streams of the sports- 
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the gateway to them, and to 
motoring and hiking regions. On 
any morning or evening of the 
year, in the spring when the frogs 
are croaking, in winter when 
every tree is a Christmas tree, in 
summer when the country alone 
is cool, any road out of New 
Rochelle will provide you another 
and a better reason for the ex- 
istence of the automobile. 

With the broad waters of the 
Sound at its feet, water sports 
take a natural precedence, and 
New Rochelle is justly proud of its quarter century of prominence in 
the world of yachting and rowing. Within the city is a tennis club, 
and several fine courses for golfers, with others but a few miles dis- 
tant. In winter the uplands ring with the merriment of those devoted 
to snow-shoe, sled or ski, and every frozen pool becomes a haven 
for hilarious skaters. Several larger ponds within the city are kept 
free of snow, and the authorities organize ice and water carnivals to 
encourage outdoor sport. With baseball, football, hockey, running, 
riding near at hand, and with 
hunting and fishing farther away, 
seekers of health and lovers of 
exercise may enjoy themselves 
throughout the year. 


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These are the physical graces 
of New Rochelle. The city is as 
rich in answer to the practical 
needs of life. One of the first de- 
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best-equipped and administered systems of schools in the United States. 
It is launched on a far-sighted program of expansion and betterment. 
Before ivy has had a chance to robe the walls of one of the largest 
and handsomest high schools of the State, the city has provided for 
another such, and for two junior high schools, each fitted with every 
modern teaching and recreational appliance, not the least of these 
latter an ample acreage for athletic fields. 

Along with this ministering to the future, the schools earlier built 
are being modernized, in so far as they need it, to the requirements 
of the present. Yet here again the characteristic foresight of the 
city has told, in that years ago the city fathers saw to it that build- 
ing should not encroach on any school, but each should have its proper 
space for outdoor play. 

As buildings, equipment and surroundings, however complete, are 
not the whole of an educational system, the city has been as watchful 
over what is done within the schoolhouse walls. Perhaps on this 
point the testimony of an outsider would be the most convincing. 
Says the editor of American Education, after a visit of inspection: 


“Anyone who visits the New Rochelle schools will be gratified 
to find a high standard of work being done in any and all classrooms 
of each school. One is favorably impressed with the homelike atmos- 
phere and spirit which prevail. Best of all, the children are happy 
and contented, able to keep the work moving forward along the lines 
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and educated as individuals to meet 
the demands of modern life and 
good citizenshipPp New Rochelle 
answers the question by doing it.” 


Just as warm testimony to the 
excellence of the schools comes 
from the parents of New Rochelle. 
They see their children troop off 
in the morning, a company of 
friends and playmates, not with 
the proverbial laggard feet but on 
the run. It takes something more 
than the lure of readin’ and ’rith- 
metic to bring children to school in 
such humor. The secret comes out 
in the evening when the children 
are home, with sums and problems 
War Memorial. indeed, but with joy in their work, 

with love of country and tales of 
its heroes, above all with love of a teacher who has been after all 
but a slightly older friend. Schools that fill their pupils with such 
a spirit do more than teach; they are turning out citizens and people 
of culture. 

Besides its public schools, New Rochelle has private schools of 
a similar character, and excellent Catholic institutions, among them 
the College of New Rochelle, probably the largest Catholic college 
for women in the United States. 

As a natural supplement to all these schools, the Public Library 
of New Rochelle offers to young and to old a remarkably complete 
collection of the best in letters, ancient and modern. 





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New Rochelle was founded by a sect as liberal as it was Godly. 
Their spirit abides in the many churches of the present, and inthe 
broad range of their ideals of worship. All the more numerous de- 
nominations are represented, all are closely united in work for the 
common good, and each sets the other a splendid example in fellow- 
ship and toleration. In one, as in the other, the new-comer will 


find a cordial welcome and ready affiliations in harmony with his 
beliefs. 





Spiritual Harmony. 


In these days the four walls of home no Jonger mark the boundary 
of a woman’s interests, nor exhaust her energies. The modern woman 
demands an outlet for her zeal and intelligence, and in New Rochelle, 
women’s societies have long been active and influential in work for 
civic good. The city owes them for many a gift to its progress. In 
a handsome and artistic new clubhouse, the Woman’s Club now 
ministers to a membership of 600 with programs of music, literature, 
the drama, art, and domestic science. Beside this are the Civic 
League, the Catholic Women’s League, the Mothers’ Club, the 
Parent-Teachers Associations, and the Sisterhood of the Temple 
Israel. In these and other associations, the women of New Rochelle 
find everything they need for improvement of self and for practical 
work in the interests of charity. On ‘the social side no woman 
in New Rochelle need be without her place in some intimate club 
for chat or play. 


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No live American city is without its citizens of foresight and pub- 
lic spirit. It goes without saying that because they are good Amer- 
icans they are not only far-sighted but have the practical sense and. 
energy to put into effect their plans for expanding and bettering their 

communities. Since nothing can 
_ be done without organization and 
public support, these men will unite 
to form clubs for debating their. 
projects over the festive table: 
The rest of their unselfish labor 
is to fill others in the community 
with equal zeal. New Rochelle 
has its share of these spirited 
citizens and their clubs, such as. 
the Rotary, the Lions, and the. 
Exchange. 

Each of these has its own field 
of endeavor, but all are alike in 
the encouragement they lend to. 
each other and the influence they 
exert on all about them. They do. 
things, and get things done. Nor 
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similar aims, and more than 20 neighborhoods have associations at 
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For two excellent reasons New Rochelle is a generous patron of 
the arts: its people as a whole are ardent lovers of art, and artists 
of every sort and of national reputation are numbered among them. 
The Art Association, composed’ of painters, illustrators, architects, 
and craftsmen, holds each year at the Public Library a half dozen 
exhibitions of their works, and these often attract the attention of 
the country as well as local appreciation. 

Music is cultivated by a number of resident professional and 
amateur performers. These also have pooled their interests in va- 
rious musical societies, and share their enthusiasms with the public 
in two series of concerts every season. At the four concerts in each 
series the music-lovers of New Rochelle may hear the same artists 
who play to New York and the nation. 

The interests of the drama are kept alive by The Huguenot 
Players, who write and act their own pieces, from one-act sketches 


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to full-length plays, some of them ranked as distinct contributions 
to the American theatre. And the Huguenot and Historical Society 
keeps the city aware of its historic background, and filled with its 
ancient spirit. 


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The civic pride of New Rochelle finds its best practical expression 
in its public institutions. Jt need hardly be said that the fire and police 
departments are maintained at the highest pitch of efficiency. Lying 
as 1t does on the main motor highway between New York and New 
England, New Rochelle has traffic problems beyond the ordinary, 
and handles them in a manner to win the praise of the motoring public. 
Each year the city spends $2,500,000 to maintain and better itself. 
Notable in itself, this annual outlay is even more entitled to note 
by the fact that more than $1,000,000 of this is spent on the care and 
up-keep of the schools alone. 

Of all its public institutions the hospital has profited the most 
because here public spirit has had the broadest opportunity to ex- 
press itself in the practical manner characteristic of our city. With 
the funds, the sympathy, and the energy of the entire community 
to draw upon, a wise direction has already built this institution from 


modest beginnings to one of the best-equipped 
hospitals in the State, and funds and plans for a 
still more ambitious expansion are now in hand. 


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As a distinctly residence community, New 
Rochelle has kept itself almost totally free of manufacture. Yet, 

being a city of homes, it offers an exceptional field in business, 
and its shops and their keepers are one of its prides. In sharp com- 
petition as they are, with the great establishments in the nearby 
metropolis of the nation, the merchants of New Rochelle neverthe- 
less maintain stocks of a variety and quality to interest any buyer, 
and against the attractions of shopping in New York they are able to 
offer the advantages of convenience, a generally lower scale of prices 
as a consequence of lower operating costs, and finally that personal 
touch in buying which has long been a typical practice and virtue in 
New Rochelle. 

Whether the resident of New Rochelle wants a gown or jewels 
for his wife, a suit for himself, furniture or food for his house, toys 
for his children, tools for his garden, or care for his car, he will find 
what he wants at a handy shop or store. Neither will he find such 
stocks as cater only to his commoner needs. The merchants of New 
Rochelle have made it needless 
for those of exacting taste to 
leave the city in quest of beauty 
or style in dress, in decoration 
for the home, in any of the finer 
fittings of life. : 

In point of banking facilities, 
the people of the city have at 
their disposal seven institutions 
owned and managed by citizens 
of New Rochelle. As themselves 
a part of the community, the 
bank officials thus thoroughly 
understand its needs, and their 
clients profit by individual and 
personal attention to their 
tastes and wants. In growth 
and development, the banks 
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the city itself, and have amply earned the confidence and trust they 
receive. 

By the Standard-Star the citizens of New Rochelle are kept daily 
informed of national and general events, but even more of each other's 
interests and doings, in a paper which has grown and continues to 
erow with the city for the principal reason that it reflects so well the 
spirit of a naturally friendly assemblage of people. 


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For those who would build, New Rochelle offers all the facilities 
of a city with all the charm of a small community. It is still, and 
will be, a place of congenial neighborhoods. Few cities in America 
can boast a site more picturesque and healthful. In all its rapid 
development, the community has kept to its determination of remain- 
ing a “place of homes.’ The city is zoned so that property is well 
protected from nuisance and crowding. The maintenance of its 
beauty and openness is watched over by a vigilant planning com- 
mission. For all our increasing number of handsome homes, generous 
areas within the municipal boundary lines remain to be developed. 
These also lend themselves to treatment in the park-like manner we 
have made characteristic of our municipality. It is a matter of 
amiable dispute whether these many waiting sites for homes are not 
more attractive than those already built upon. And for those of no 
taste for the cares of a home, the city is well provided with fine 
apartment houses and apartment hotels, all of central situation. 


Such are the attractive material surroundings to life in New 
Rochelle. Not so easily described is the life that goes on within 
this visible shell. It 1s life of a flavor that has drawn to itself the 
prominent in every profession and business, in a common association 
and fellowship that has made the city absolutely unique in America. 
Who its interesting people are, what they do and what they are to 
each other, you will see best of all at the railroad station any morning 
as they wait for the train to their offices in New York. 

You will see a mining engineer, a comic “‘stripling,”’ a scenario 
writer, two bank presidents (each with the proverbial glass-eye), two 
city editors, a captain of American industry, three newspaper “col- 
yumists,” four stage celebrities, a judge, a college professor, a couple 


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Photograph by James Owen. 


Glen Island—South Shore. 


of playwrights, three great dentists, metropolitan department store 
executives, a ‘“‘mortician,”’ a librarian and after them corporation 
executives, and members of the stock exchange without count. 

The best known of newspaper artists will be there with a big flat 
package under his arm, “carrying his butter and eggs to market.” A 
noted illustrator has with him the-book-to-read-on-the-train that he 
never reads. Artists and manufacturers, brokers and theatrical pro- 
ducers, engineers, and publicity experts—the roster is of infinite 
variety. They all bear names. Timbuctoo knows some of them. 

One wonders what would happen to the nation’s teeth, finance, 
railways, health, and bank accounts, if anything befell the 9:05 from 
New Rochelle to New York. Certainly one best-known weekly 
would go without its cover page. That cover page is New Rochelle’s 
chief article of manufacture. Too much could not be said of these 
artists who would carry world-wide fame with them no matter what 
town or city they chose to call their home. Even one of them would 
make the Four Corners in Montana a national art center, and the 
collection of their paintings in this booklet rather obviously insures 
its success. 

Accident might anywhere assemble as many able men, and leave 
them mutually hostile, jealous, aloof from each other, each after his 
own kind. But the discriminating smoking-car demands a spirit of 


Westchester County at a Glance 


REVOLUTION 


(3) General Howe’s Army landed, October, 1776. (2) Battle of Pell’s 
oint, October 18, 1776. (3) St. Paul’s Church, Mt. Vernon, British 
hospital, October, 1776. (4) British camp, October 18-21, 1776. 
merican defenses, October,1776, during White Plains campaign. 
, Battle of White Plains. (7) Odell House, Rochambeau’s head- 
uarters, 1781. (8) French camp, 1781. (9) American camp, 1781. 
ro) André captured, 1780. (11) Fort Lafayette. (12) King’s Ferry. 
13) Fort dad epeanene’: {r4) Constitution Village. (15) Boom and 

) Philipse Manor Hall, Yonkers. 


chain across Hudson. (1 





Black Bass—Kensico, Rye, Croton, Titicus, Cross River, Waccabuc 
lakes; Grassy Sprain, Amawalk reservoirs. Trout—Croton, Mianus, 
Byram, Cross, Saw Mill rivers; Kensico and Rye lakes; Titicus Lake, 
Cross Pond, Beaver Dam, Amawalk, and Trinity Lake outlets. 
Pickerel—Kensico, Rye, Cross River, Byram lakes; Amawalk and 
Grassy Sprainreservoirs. Perch—Croton, Titicus, Byram, Kensico, 
Rye, a River, Waccabuc lakes; Grassy Sprain and Amawalk 
reservoirs. 


(couRTESY WESTCHESTER LIGHTING COMPANY) 





BEST KNOWN GOLF LINKS OF THE COUNTY 


@) St. Andrews; (2) Dunwoodie; (3) Hudson River C. C.; (4) Grassy 

rain; (5) Ardsley; (6) S ngdale C. C.; (7) Siwanoy C. C.; 
(8) Oak Rid e; (9) Lawrence Park C. C.; (103 ykagyl C. C.; (11 
Pelham C. C.; (12) Bonnie Briar C. C.; (13) Quaker Ridge; (14 
Winged Foot; (25) carsdale; (16) Fenimore C. C.; (17) Westchester 
Hills; (18) Rye C.C.; (19) Apawamis; (20) Green Meadow; (21) West- 
chester-Biltmore C. C.; (22) Port Chester C. C.; (23) Blind Brook; 
24) Knollwood C. C.; (25) Fairview C. C.; (26) Century C. C.; 
27 Sleepy Hollow C.C.; (28) Mt. Kisco; (29) Bedford G. & T.; (30) 
riar Hills C. C.; (31) Briarcliff Lodge Association. 


WHERE SKATING MAY BE ENJOYED 
(:) Van Cortlandt Park Lake; (2) Bronx River Parkway; Qatar 


eservoir; (4) Beechmont Lake; ) Larch- 
mont Gardens Lake; (7) Hygeia Ice Pond; (8) Bruce Pond and 
Tenacres; (9) Silver Lake; (70) Bronx River Parkwa ; (11) Hudson 
ver; (12) Tarrytown and Pocantico Lakes 
In addition to the above, there are numerous small ponds in West- 
chester County where there is good skating when the weather con- 
ditions are just right. 


) Huguenot Lakes; 


Facts About New Rochelle 


An exceptionally substantial residential community on Long Island Sound, in historic and 
beautiful Westchester County, notable for its fine homes and the absence of manufacturing. 

With a population of 46,000, whose 10,000 families mostly own the 7,000 homes comprised in 
a community of some twenty individual residential parks, Beechmont, Wykagyl, Sutton Manor, 
Forest Heights, Rochelle Heights, Huguenot Heights, etc. Apartment houses and apartment 
hotels. 

Sixteen miles and 32 minutes from Grand Central. .Unsurpassed commuter and general 
passenger transportation service provided by the New York, New Haven and Hartford, running 
approximately 34 trains daily each way between Grand Central and New Rochelle, and the New 
York, Westchester and Boston, running under a twenty-minute headway and withan all-night service. 
The Harlem River Railroad as well. One hour by motor to Times Square. Sixteen miles of local 





trolleys. 

Lowest mortality rate per capita and richest city per capita in New York State. Altitude 
varying from II to 289 feet above sea level. Area 10.2 square miles. 

Nine miles of water frontage and 29 acres of inland waters. Three public parks aggregating 
83 acres—Hudson, City and Huguenot—and more than a score of parklets. Parks, parkways 
and bathing beaches, including Glen Island, and Huguenot Woods, owned by the County and within 
the City limits, aggregate 385 acres. 

Public school educational system of national repute. One senior and two junior high schools. 
Public school enrollment approximately 8,000. Several good private schools and Catholic institu- 
tions including the famous College of New Rochelle, for young women, and excellent parochial 
schools. Also a business training school. A public library with 68,000 volumes. 

Several high grade amusement houses including Loew’s and with Keith’s about to open a 
vaudeville and moving picture theatre. Y. M. C. A. and Y. M. H. A. also the leading fraternal 
organizations, some having club houses. 

Two public bathing beaches, 3 yacht clubs, 1 rowing club, 3 golf clubs with 7 more in vicinity, 
tennis clubs. Canoeing, fishing, public skating and hockey Jakes. Public baseball and football 
grounds. Bridle paths. . 

Twenty-nine churches. An unusually fine and long established woman’s club owning its own 
clubhouse and several other women’s clubs. A nationally noted art association, a dramatic organ- 
ization (the Huguenot Players), several music clubs, an historical association, a garden club, a 
humane society. Numerous neighborhood associations. Beach and shore clubs. Rotary, Lions 
and Exchange clubs and various denominational clubs. 

A city zoned and with a competent city planning commission. Efficiency of police and fire 
departments attested by official State and National statistics. A modern hospital having the 
highest possible official rating. Two homes for the aged and a visiting nurse association. 

A newly-built sewage disposal plant and a recently installed municipal garbage collection sys- 
tem. Cleanliness of streets. 

Hundreds of good shops including the largest department store between New York City and 
Bridgeport, in a community which is the immediate buying centre for a population of approximately 
70,000. 

Building operations approximately twenty millions for 1925 and 1926. Assessed valuation 
$126,000,000 and $15,000,000 more exempt from taxation. Ideal sites for home-builders. 

A Chamber of Commerce of recognized civic accomplishment and influence at your service. 


good fellowship within its doors and windows—and gets it. On the 
9: 05 men fraternize, whatever their calling. Without fear and without 
reproach the actor sits down with the critic, the lawyer inspires no 
distrust, the lion and the lamb commune together. 

And the newcomer needs no diploma, no medal, no laurel wreath, 
no introduction, to join the band. The only badge asked of him is the 
mark of the good Sort, an interest in the other man’s work, and a 
willingness to speak the tongue of goodfellowship. He will naturally 
take his part in the civic interests of the community. It is a thing 
Which all New Rochelleans do without being asked. It is instinctive 
with them. 

The 9:05 is one symbol for New Rochelle. It has another in the 
signs posted where every main road enters its boundaries. The signs 
were sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, sanctioned by an en- 
terprising mayor, paid for by the municipality, and designed as a 
civic contribution by our resident artists. These signs tell the traveler 
more than the number of miles to New Rochelle. They tell every 
passer-by seeking for a place where life may be lived, where snob- 
bery and pretense are rarest, and where every interest and enjoyment, 
from Poker to Plato, is most plentiful, that New Rochelle is the place. 

Each year, all over the country, when the holiday season arrives, 
the business man and his family turn their faces “restward”’ toward 
the outing ground. Some make for the hills and the woods, some 
for the lakes and the shore. In New Rochelle they find all these at 
home. There is neither excuse nor need to go away, except for 
change; and to any real resident of New Rochelle, any change is apt 
to be for the worse. 


“Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart— 
On us, on us the unswerving season smiles 
Who wonder ’mid our fern why men depart 
To seek the Happy Isles!” 





OUEBEN@GITe 
OF PHESSOUNID 





No stern and rock bound coast is here, 
But, peaceful and at ease, 

The quiet sea lies blue and clear 
Beside the spreading trees. 

Afar from din of marts and mills 
A happy people dwell 

Among the placid, green clad hills 
Of lovely New Rochelle. 


Here came the Huguenots, and found 
The freedom they had sought, 

And over this historic ground 
The Continentals fought. 

Great elms that tower o’er the town 
With arms stretched toward the sky 

In long past days perhaps looked down 
When Washington marched by. 


The song of birds is gayer here, 
More sweet the scent of flowers, 

The little twinkling stars more clear, 
More bright the passing hours. 

When Nature, seeking upon men 
To cast a magic spell, 

She looked the world around—and then 
She fashioned New Rochelle. 


—JAMES J. MONTAGUE. 


Gaylord Bros. 
Makers 


Syracuse, N.Y. 
PAT. JAN. 21, 1908 








